A BATTLE of the reigning premiers saw Casterton Sandford take first blood over Kybybolite in round one of the 2023 Limestone Coast Women’s Football League season.
HAMILTON local, Charlize Cooper, stepped up and represented the Vic Country Goldminers at the 2023 Southern Cross Challenge over the weekend in the Under-14 Girls competition at Melbourne.
PORTLAND’S women’s basketballers couldn’t have asked for a better lead in to their Country Basketball League finals campaign, after defeating one of the premiership favourites for the season in Mount Gambier on Sunday, 54-51.
ALYSSA Humphries (Casterton) and Eliza Jagger (Balmoral) were part of the VIC Country girls side that fell short in the semi-finals against South Australia at the Australian Country Cricket Championships (ACCC) in Canberra on Thursday.
THE Hampden Football Netball League is well underway in its preparations for the 2023 season, with clubs digging into their preseason training in hopes of getting an edge on the competition.
SEARING temperatures and a mouthful of dust did not deter the region’s up-and-coming campdrafters from heading to the Wannon to learn from some of the country’s best, as the Southern Campdraft Association brought its annual youth clinic to the district, for the first time.
TRAINING and riding doubles highlighted a great day’s racing at Hamilton on Tuesday.
Beau Mertens and Dean Holland notched riding doubles, while high profile trainers, Lindsey Smith, and father and son combination, Tony and Calvin McEvoy, also chalked up doubles.
PORTLAND’S basketball community continues to go from strength to strength, and a big part of that ongoing success has been due to the involvement of the Morrissey family.
